Paolo Pinotti - Bocconi University

Paolo Pinotti
Curriculum vitae
January 2012
CONTACTS
Università Bocconi
Via Rontgen 1, 20136, Milan
Mobile: +39 340 2533418
e-mail: [email protected]
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Date of birth: December 24th, 1978
Birthplace: Correggio (RE), Italy
Civil status: Married, 1 daughter
Nationality: Italian
EMPLOYMENT
Università Bocconi
Assistant Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management
Researcher at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics
2011-pres.
Bank of Italy
Economist at the Research Department, Law and Economics Division
2007-2011
EDUCATION
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Ph.D. in Economics, Excellent Cum Laude
Dissertation: ''The Costs and Benefits of Public Intervention'', Advisor: Prof. Antonio Ciccone.
2004-2009
University of Chicago, Master in Economics, with Honors (admitted to the Ph.D.)
2003-2004
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Master in Economics, with Honors (admitted to the Ph.D.)
2002-2003
Università Bocconi, Bachelor Degree in Economics, 110/110 cum Laude
Dissertation: ''The Political Economy of Privatization'', Advisor: Prof. Guido Tabellini
1997-2001
EDITORIAL SERVICE
Associate Editor, International Review of Law and Economics
2012-pres.
Referee for Advances in Life Course Research, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Journal of
Political Science, Economic Journal, Giornale degli Economisti, Genus, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of
European Social Policy, Journal of Public Economics, Industrial Relations, Labour Economics, Regional Science and
Urban Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, The BE Journal of Macroeconomics
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed international journals
Politicians at work. The private returns and social costs of political connections (with F. Cingano)
Journal of the European Economic Association (forthcoming)
Trust, regulation and market failures, The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming)
Do immigrants cause crime?, (with M. Bianchi and P. Buonanno), Journal of the European Economic
Association (forthcoming)
Financial development and pay-as-you-go social security, The BE Journal of Macroeconomics - Topics, , vol.
9(1), article 11, 2009
Delayed privatization (with B. Bortolotti), Public Choice, vol. 136(3), pages 331-351, 2008
Chapters in collective volumes and peer-reviewed proceedings of conferences
Organized crime, violence and the quality of politicians: Evidence from southern Italy, in Lessons from the
Economics of Crime, Ed. P. Cook, S. Machin, O. Marie and G. Mastrobuoni, MIT Press (forthcoming)
Democratization and civic capital in Italy (with L. Guiso), in Italy and the World Economy: 1861-2011, Ed. G.
Toniolo, Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
Working papers
Migration restrictions and criminal behavior: evidence from a natural experiment (with G. Mastrobuoni),
Bank of Italy Working Papers, Carlo Alberto Notebooks, FEEM Working Papers
The economic consequences of organized crime : evidence from southern Italy
Trust, firm organization and the structure of production (with F. Cingano)
SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS
Conferences and workshops: Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society (2012, invited), American
Economic Association (2012, invited), UNIBO Political Economy Workshop (2011, invited), Transatlantic
Workshop on the Economics of Crime (2011), CESifo Summer Institute, meeting on the Economics of Crime
(2011), Royal Economic Society Conference, Special session on Immigration and Crime (2011, organizer),
NBER Summer Institute, Labor Studies and Crime meetings (2010), Sciences Po/IZA Workshop on Trust,
Civic Spirit and Economic Performance (2010), FEEM-CEPR Conference on Economics of Culture,
Institutions and Crime (2010), European Economic Association (2009, 2006, 2003), Brucchi Luchino
Workshop (2009, 2008), Social Minima Workshop (2009), La Pietra - Mondragone Workshop (2009),
European Association of Law and Economics (2009), European Society for Population Economics (2008)
Invited seminars: Trinity College in Dublin (2012), IMT Lucca (2011), Maastricht University (2011),
Universidad del Pais Vasco (2011), University of Rome La Sapienza (2011), Brown University (2010),
Universiteit van Amsterdam (2010), University of Paris X (2010), Einaudi Institute for Economics and
Finance (2010, 2009, 2008), Bocconi University (2010, 2009, 2008), Università di Milano (2009), Università
Parthenope (2009), Università di Bologna (2009), Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (2008), CEIS (2008)
FUNDED PROJECTS
Collegio Carlo Alberto, research grant for the project Unexplored Determinants and Consequences of Legal,
Illegal, and Criminal Migration, total amount € 132,000, period Jun. 2010 – Jun. 2012. I have been coinvestigator for the first year of the project (€ 66,000, Jun. 2010 – Jun. 2011)
Antonveneta Foundation, grant of € 5,000 for delivering the paper Migration Restrictions and Criminal
Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, period May 2009 – May 2011.
W.E. Upjohn Institute, starting grant of $ 5,000 for the project: Immigrants' Legal Status and the Cost of Crime:
Evidence from a Natural Experiment, period Mar. 2010 – Mar. 2012.
EU-FP6, project CIT5-CT-2005-028647, Understanding privatization policy: Political Economy and Welfare Effects,
total amount € 1,1 mil., period Feb. 2006 – Feb. 2008. I have been part of the research teams of two partners
of the consortium, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and FEEM Foundation.
OTHER PROJECTS AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES (SELECTED)
Cariplo Foundation
2011-2016
Evaluation of a four-year, randomized remedial and developmental education program for foreign
students in 140 secondary schools in Italy.
Harvard University
Visiting researcher at the Department of Economics (3 months)
2010
Italian Antimafia Commission
2010-2011
Leader of the research team that reported to the Italian Parliament on the economic costs of organized
crime, money laundering and corruption
Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei
Junior economist
2001-2003
AWARDS AND PRIZES
Bank of Italy, scholarship for graduate studies abroad (€ 50,000 + taxes & fees × 2 years)
2004-2006
Luigi Einaudi Foundation, scholarship for graduate studies abroad (€ 10,000)
2003-2004
Università Bocconi, scholarship for graduate studies abroad (€ 15,000)
2003-2004
University of Chicago, tuition fee waiver ($ 15,000)
2003-2004
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, tuition fee waiver (€ 7,000)
2002-2003
EDITORIAL SERVICE
Editorial Board, Scientific Publications of the Bank of Italy, 2007-2011
Referee for Advances in Life Course Research, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Journal of
Political Science, Economic Journal, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of
Public Economics, Industrial Relations, Labour Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of
Income and Wealth, The BE Journal of Macroeconomics
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Università di Torino, Graduate course in The Sociology of Mafia and Organized Crime
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Graduate course in International Economics, TA for Prof. J. Ventura
2012
2006-2007
COMPUTER SKILLS
Advanced knowledge of Stata, Matlab, Eviews and Latex
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Italian (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish (basic)
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PUBLIC DEBATE AND MEDIA COVERAGE
Crisi e mafia, inattesa spirale criminale, by Alfonso Munsci, Corriere del Mezzogiorno, 26 Oct. 2011
Quanto ci costano le mafie?, debate with the anti-mafia magistrate Nicola Gratteri, Radio 3, 29 Aug. 2011
Le imprese rischiano l'effetto Sud, by Stefano Feltri, Il Fatto Quotidiano, 15 Mar. 2011
Le mafie costano 37 miliardi al Sud, by Carmine Sarno, MF, 24 Feb. 2011
Se la mafia ruba il 16% del PIL, Il Sole 24 Ore, 26 Nov. 2010
Più immigrazione uguale più criminalità?, public debate with David Card and Marzio Barbagli, Festival of
Economics in Trento, 5 Jun. 2010
Extracomunitari e crimine, by Paolo Buonanno and Giulio Zanella www.noisefromamerika.org 7 Feb. 2010
Immigrazione non è uguale a criminalità: la risposta ai commenti, by Tito Boeri, lavoce.info, 5 Feb. 2010
Immigrazione e criminalità. Cosa dicono i numeri, by Tito Boeri, La Repubblica, 4 Feb. 2010
The costs of connections, The Wall Street Journal (www.livemint.com), 23 Oct., 2009
The costs of rent-seeking: evidence from political connections, www.voxeu.org, 17 Aug. 2009
L'immigrazione non alimenta i reati, Il Sole 24 Ore, 28 Aug. 2008
Crimini e immigrati, www.lavoce.info, 3 Feb. 2009
Il maggioritario privatizza di più, Il Sole 24 Ore (feature story), 12 Jul. 2003